what does the latin suffice -rupt mean?
2007-02-07 13:20:47 · 4 answers · asked by blu_pineappl3 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It isn't a suffix. It's the past participle of rumpo, rumpere, meaning break. It survives best in English in the form "interrupt" -- "to break between".
2007-02-07 13:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not actually a Latin suffix in Latin, as someone stated before. It does however come from Latin and means break.
2007-02-11 10:20:14 · answer #2 · answered by NicknameThing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a suffix, but a stem, from the verb "ruptere" or "to break."
You see it in combination with prefixes in such words as corrupt, abrupt, interrupt, etc.
2007-02-07 15:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Greek root "amphi-" means about, around or both.
2016-05-24 05:07:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋